Word: subpoenae
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Porterfield went back to Anchorage in early November in response to a subpoena requiring him to turn over notes and phone records on a series of stories published starting in March 1977. Porterfield's discovery of a complex financial fraud that the stories recounted led to the indictment of three people, two of whom have since pleaded guilty...
What has aroused these and other members of the bar association is a small retail emporium known as The Law Store, which has been open for business since the spring in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks, next to Mogo's Mongolian Barbecue and a subpoena's throw from Super Cow's Soft Frozen Yogurt. The Law Store customers pay $9.95 to pick up a store telephone and consult with one of eight part-time attorneys in the West Los Angeles offices of Group Legal Services, Inc., owner of the store. For an additional $10, attorneys will write...
...notes for a series of investigative articles that had spurred the prosecution of Jascalevitch. Farber and the Times had argued that the defense had failed to show that any information gleaned from such an examination would be relevant to Jascalevitch's defense, and, more importantly, that such a subpoena violated First Amendment guarantees of press freedom. Jascalevitch's counsel responded that he could not demonstrate the relevance of material he had not been permitted to see, and that a refusal to make the material available to the defense would effectively deny Dr. Jascalevitch his Sixth Amendment right to a fair...
...Jersey Supreme Court upheld criminal contempt charges against Myron Farber and The New York Times, rejecting arguments that the first amendment allows a reporter to shield notes and confidential sources. The right of the defendant in the murder case, Dr. Philip Jascelevich, to subpoena testimony in his defense overrides Farber's rights of confidentiality, the court said...
...Times's counsel, sharply criticized Lacey for making the book an issue when it was "absolutely, totally irrelevant" to the reason why Farber's lawyers had asked for the writ-simply, to get Farber released until a court decides the merits of his claim. Nonetheless, fearing a subpoena for the book and yet another contempt citation if Farber refused to turn over his manuscript, the lawyers hastily withdrew their habeas petition...